Nelson was arrested Nov. 26 after a Border Patrol agent smelled pot wafting from Nelson’s tour bus at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint. A little more than six ounces was found on the bus.

Nelson was arraigned and on the road again after paying a $2,500 bond. Now the charges have been fully resolved. He has to pay a $100 fine and sing a song at the courthouse:

...The fine will be $100 and court costs amount to $278. Bramblett said he’s in contact with Nelson’s lawyer. Next time the singer’s tour schedule brings the Honeysuckle Rose close to Sierra Blanca, Bramblett’s office will be notified and Willie will make a scheduled stop at the Hudspeth County courthouse.

The D.A. is 78 and Willie is 77. The DA says “He’s been my favorite artist all my life. We all know he smokes a little pot.”

... sitting behind bars for intent to deliver, which is what anything over an oz will get you in most states.

$100 and what amounts to 10 mins of community service is less than I got for coasting through a stop sign in the middle of nowhere on my bike.

Punishment isn't meant to benefit the person handing it out. Rule of law in America has become a joke. When 'different rules for different fools' means one gets to sing for the judge and the rest go straight to jail, if not prison, it's mighty offensive.

I can't help but be happy he's not getting the full ringer treatment that you or I would get, or caged souls have gotten...a smidgen less senseless misery is something to cheer. And the favored citizen status at least fell on somebody deserving this time...an American treasure, instead of some bankster who runs in high circles, with little to no redeeming social value.

Of course you're right, it's a joke and unfair...a private concert? This guy think he's the Queen of England or something?

More evidence equality under the law is a utopian quality that can likely never be obtained...ya can only hope to minimize the inequality by minimizing law itself, specifically criminal law...best we can do I'm afraid.

But $100, come on, Willie doesn't need to be locked up, but would an appropriate fine be too much to ask. $15 an oz, that is probably the lowest fine ever levied this decade for possession in the entire US.

I don't need a pound of flesh, but a grand or two seems like a responsible amount.

And if Willie has a lick of sense, he won't go anywhere near that jurisdiction for the redux.

Coming up in the town in which overdressing is said the only unforgivable social crime, we withheld comment and grudgingly came to admit the utility of your big sombreros while hosting your team during the recent super bowl. While somewhat concerned about the windage, there was no denying that big yellow wedge would keep the sun off your back.

After reading your comments about Willie I'll admit that I am forced to reconsider. I have to wonder if the utility of those sombreros were actually in fact an indicator of what filled the space between the bearers ears. I'd recommend a couple of trips to Luckenbach to get that spring unwound a bit.

I was actually making a joke because I know how popular Willie is, hence the flaming comment. I don't like the guy's music, but I don't have anything against him. Well until he started popping up on trucker stop billboards complete with bandanna and guitar pushing a product that barely passes the green smell test.

I was a yankee, and the those Texas outlaw creds Willie seems to posses are a little... too inflated.

OK, OK, the real reason I dislike Willie is that my mom loves, loves, loves the rodeo clown. There, put that it your notebook Rojas. The Houston Big Oil employee from Wisconsin has mommy issues.... And I hope gas hits $5/gallon sooner than later you sonz of beotches. (the entire post is a joke if it's not obvious)

Before Willie's first Armadillo show, the Austin American-Statesman's Townsend Miller wrote in his country music column of the appearance of Nelson on a psychedelic poster and wondered about that night's inevitable collision of rednecks and long-hairs, the two warring camps that shared no common ground in any other place in the United States in the 1960s or '70s.

Outlawed in Nashville....

Willie inadvertently found himself to be the leader of an outlaw musical movement that had nothing in common with what was going on in Nashville. It was later dubbed "redneck rock" or the "cosmic cowboy" sound, a new mix of traditional folk, tejano, blues, pop, psychedelia, you name it. Whatever it was, it wasn't quite country and it wasn't quite rock.